[CentOS] Severe issues with the latest 6.5 desktop

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:11 AM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Ok, here at home, I'm running kde. After the last update, last week, and
>> reboot (and that was a *real* mess - some issue I'm not sure I've
>> resolved yet, trying to boot off RAID 1), here's what's started happening:
>> I run in runlevel 3, and have a startx in my .bash_profile. At some
>> point, just about every day, suddenly the toolbar on the bottom
vanishes, as
>> does my desktop wallpaper, the background goes black, and dmesg is
showing me:
>> plasma-desktop[22021]: segfault at 11 ip 00000034820ffd02 sp
>> 00007fffa6a0b000
>> error 4 in libplasma.so.3.0.0[3482000000+218000]
>> over and over. I <ctrl-alt-bksp>, it kills X, and I startx again, and
>> I'm good... well, unless it does it to me again. Happened several times
last
>> evening.
>>
>> Any ideas, folks?
>
> This bug?
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=0007012
>
*bing!*
That sounds *just* like it, and having not tracked it down, I had been
trying to figure out what magic made it happen. Hovering, hmmm? Sounds
like, at least for now, I need to downgrade something.

Thanks *very* much Akemi. With the problems I had over the weekend, I was
thinking of reinstalling the package with that lib; this jumps over that
time-waster.

         mark